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Suit: Council candidate’s house is not his home

BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

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he fund-raising leader in the seven-way race to represent Ahwatukee on Phoenix City Council – who also has the support

by Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego – lives in Scottsdale and only rented a home in Ahwatukee to run, according to the two Ahwatukee residents running against him.

One of those contenders, Moses Sanchez, asked a judge to knock former Phoenix Assis-

tant Police Chief Kevin Robinson off the ballot.

After a hearing Monday, Superior Court Judge M. Scott McCoy took the matter under advisement.

The other Ahwatukee candidate, Joan Greene, has made Robinson’s residency part of her campaign, calling him “our own Dr. Oz” – a reference to the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania whose New Jersey home has stirred a controversy.

Robinson declined to be interviewed by the Ahwatukee Foothills News pending the out-

come of the hearing, but testified he had previously lived in Ahwatukee and that his current home in Pointe South Mountain, “wasn’t temporary. It was meant to be permanent.”

Robinson has the strong support of Gallego – who tweeted in February: “With deep roots in the district and having spent his decorated career serving Phoenix, Kevin Robinson is the natural choice for District 6. @KevinforPhoenix will work diligent-

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ood insecurity. Two words most Ahwatukee families never expected to consider – until now.

With rental prices at an all-time high –as of last week, Ahwatukee one-bedroom apartment rents vacillated between $1,308 to $1,692 – and gas prices soaring, more local families are finding less expendable income.

Sticker prices at the local grocery stores are also causing families to rethink their weekly menu, often omitting fruits, vegetables, meats, even bread and dairy items. Sometimes it’s a trade-off to meet basic expenditures.

Two area food banks have continued to step into the breach.

Generation Church Food Pantry and The Kyrene Family Resource Center have noted an increase in clients, many of whom have never made use of food banks before.

Generation Church South Mountain Campus,

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Barb Taylor, Mark Taylor, Lisandra Casiano, Lorraine Galletley and Dolores Skold start to unload and sort a pallet load of food arriving at the food pantry at Generation Church in Ahwatukee.

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New teachers ready to work as TU classes begin

BY SAMANTHA MORRIS AFN Staff Writer

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ahaziel Felix, 22, had the value of education instilled in him from an early age. He learned it from his mother, who wasn’t able to go past middle school.

“Ever since then I pursued education, got a full ride scholarship twice, got my degree and my certificate in education,” said Felix.

Tomorrow, Aug. 4, Felix and 117 other men and women will have their chance to share their love of education as new teachers as Tempe Union High School District begins the new school year.

Felix, a recent Arizona State University graduate, begins his first day at Mountain Pointe High School teaching history and economics.

He is part of what a district spokeswoman called the “largest group of incoming teachers that anyone can recall in recent memory.”

This year’s class of teachers come amid a substantial teacher shortage across Arizona.

Although the recent hiring and vacancy rates at Tempe Union have remained consistent in recent years, the need for teachers is still an ongoing need.

In response, Tempe Union has offered recruitment stipends of $3,000 for new hires this school year. An additional stipend of $3,000 is also available for hires in what are considered hard-to-fill positions like school psychologists, math, science, and special education teachers.

“We are a fantastic district to work for with great benefits, competitive compensation in all areas and a caring administration,” said Megan Sterling, district executive director of community relations.

There are currently 145 teachers at Desert Vista and 101 at Mountain Pointe.

And according to the application website Frontline. com, there are currently 22 unfilled staff positions at Desert Vista and 16 at Mountain Pointe. Openings include a variety of positions like teachers, custodians and coaches.

Many experts are attributing nationwide teacher vacancies to what has been called the “Great Resignation,” as teachers leave the profession due to stress, burnout and frustration with low pay. The Arizona Education Association predicts that 10-15% of teachers will quit after this school year.

However, optimism and excitement was in the air among the brand new Ahwatukee teachers, like Felix, who gathered for orientation last Thursday at district headquarters.

“It is an interesting time to enter the teaching profession,” said Felix. “We’re still in recovery mode, year three of the pandemic.

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All 3 parties in Club West suit lose 1st round

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rospects for a quick resolution of a lawsuit involving the future of the Club West Golf Course appear murky after a judge essentially ruled against all three parties in the Club West Conservancy’s lawsuit against Shea Homes and course owner the Edge.

Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason tossed the Club West Conservancy’s request that Shea Homes and course owner the Edge be permanently barred from selling off any piece of the 162-acre site for home construction but suggested he’d reconsider further proceedings in the case if the Conservancy refiles its complaint with the names of its members.

The judge also refused to cut Shea Homes loose from any further litigation in the matter and declined the Edge’s request for an outright dismissal of the Conservancy suit.

The ruling July 26 came after the previous day’s 45-minute hearing on a request

by Shea and the Edge to dismiss the complaint.

The Conservancy, a group of Club West homeowners, contends that Shea – like the original homebuilder in the community that it eventually acquired – used the golf course to attract homebuyers and also promised in sales agreements the course would always be there.

The Edge sought a dismissal of the case on grounds that the Conservancy had no standing and that it was seeking to prevent something that wasn’t even a reality since it has made no deal to sell any part of the course.

Shea’s attorney told the judge during the hearing her client has no plan to build homes and also has asserted the homebuilder doesn‘t even have the declarant, or land use rights to the site.

Thomason ruled that the Edge had a point when it said that because the Conservancy’s members are unknown, it’s impossible to determine whether it has “organizational standing” to represent any homeowner in the community.

“CWC has clearly not demonstrated that it has organizational standing,” the judge

wrote in a nine-page minute entry – a somewhat less formal ruling that usually precedes a more detailed opinion.

But Thomason also offered some advice to the group that suggested a condition it needed to fulfill if the case is to move forward.

“Without identification of the homeowner members that CWC is suing on behalf of, it is simply impossible to determine if representational capacity is appropriate,” the judge said, adding that it “is going to have to identify the members of CWC on whose behalf this sought is brought and identify the properties those members own.”

The judge also intimated that the Conservancy’s core allegation might have merit for further consideration, rejecting the Edge’s contention that CWC has no business raising any objections to the site’s future.

Thomason noted that the Conservancy is contending the sales agreements’ addendum promised homebuyers the site would always be a golf course.

Pending further hearings on that contention if the Conservancy identifies its members, the judge said such a promise “provides CWC members with a direct and substantial interest in the Edge Property controversy.”

He also wrote that while he is not making a ruling on that point, he “does have concerns that each of the homeowners might be required to participate individually in this case.

“Each homeowner may have relied on something different,” Thomason continued. “Moreover, the damages suffered by homeowners could be greatly divergent.”

He noted “CWC’s members are certainly not all similarly situated.”

That appeared to be a reference to the Conservancy’s vague description of its members as people who owned homes either right on the course or away from it, suggesting that homeowners who paid premium lot prices to be on the site would suffer greater losses than those with homes farther away from it.

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In a lawsuit filed against Julie and Matt Tyler and “unknown parties” that could be other Conservancy members, The Edge is seeking $5 million in damages, claiming it lost millions of dollars on its $750,000 investment in the 2019 purchase of the 162-acre course from Wilson Gee. The suit singles out Matt Tyler and his “co-conspirators” of “unwarranted, wrongful, intentional and deceitful conduct” in connection with a series of actions that began a few weeks after The Edge rolled out its proposal for the course during a meeting of the Club West homeowners association board in January 2020.

The Tylers declined comment, stating they were still in the process of finalizing legal representation.”

In January 2020, The Edge presented a plan for a modified par-54 golf course, which by then had fallen into its currently dismal barren state because the city had shut off its water supply.

The Edge proposed the course, an 18hole putting green, a new clubhouse and driving range with Top Golf technology.

To pay for it, the Edge proposed selling three pieces of the site totaling about 30 acres to Taylor Morrison for construction of 164 single- and two-story homes.

Within weeks after the presentation, Matt Tyler and others formed the Conservancy to fight the plan, contending new houses would ruin the views enjoyed by about 367 homeowners who had paid premium lot prices of as much as $60,000 to live on the perimeter of the course.

In the wake of the emerging controversy, Taylor-Morrison backed out of the plan.

The Edge’s suit notes that its initial rollout during a crowded January 2020 meeting at the Club West Community Center was greeted by two rounds of applause and that the four partners were “starting to discuss when the HOA Board would

vote” on it “and when there would be a community vote.”

“Mr. Tyler was not enthusiastic about the Edge’s plan because” it did not restore the 18-hole course, the suit alleges.

“He began to formulate a scheme to prevent the HOA Board, the community, or any developer from engaging or doing business with The Edge,” it says.

The suit also accuses him of a “scheme to gain control” of the declarant rights that give the owner substantial power to determine how the site can be used.

“Mr. Tyler strategically named his nonprofit the Club West Conservancy to mislead the community into believing the CWC organization was truly going to engage in conservation activities,” the suit alleges, stating “one of Mr. Tyler’s first missions was to disrupt a town hall” that The Edge had organized at Desert Vista High School a few weeks after the HOA board meeting.

The suit also says The Edge had acquiesced to a request by Councilman Sal DiCiccio to consider other uses for the site, including a park. It accuses Matt Tyler of using the initial couple meetings between HOA representatives and The Edge to discuss other uses to gather “intelligence” that “allowed him to further develop his improper scheme.”

It alleges he “understood the power of social media and organized a disinformation campaign on NextDoor against The Edge and anyone who supported The Edge’s development plan” for the site.

The Edge had created a subsidiary called Community Land Solutions and began seeking input from homeowners on other uses for the course.

Community Land Solutions has not yet unveiled a formal plan for the site, although it had suggested a park with amenities like a dog park.

The lawsuit alleges, “Mr. Tyler wrongfully interfered with The Edge’s negotiations to sell the course to Shea Homes and that he also “devised a scheme” to pack the HOA board and use it “to prevent any development of the (golf course) and to fund litigation to prevent any development…so neither the CWC nor Mr. Tyler would have

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Edge’s argument that all homeowners had been advised that “no representations or warranties have been made or are made” by anyone that the site would always be a golf course.

“This argument goes to the merits of the dispute,” he said.

But Thomason also noted that the course’s property declaration states any restriction limiting its use for golf could be removed in the future and that that clause “may ultimately make it very difficult to prevail on a claim based on the property declaration.”

Thomason also addressed The Edge’s assertion that no plan for the golf course has been advanced since it took it off the table in an early 2020 proposition to build

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to incur those litigation costs.”

That litigation involved a lawsuit that the Conservancy had filed against the HOA board. The old board had claimed Shea Homes had given the declarant rights to the course.

The new HOA board ultimately lost that lawsuit and opted not to appeal because of the cost.

Matt Tyler resigned as president shortly after his wife was elected president of the HOA board in March 2021.

One of the major sticking points involving the site’s future use is that costly potable city water must be used to irrigate it if it were to be kept green.

The lawsuit accuses Tyler and the Conservancy of promoting the idea that an 18-hole championship golf course could be restored on the site, that a wastewater plant could be built to irrigate it, and that he “repeatedly and falsely stated” that homeowners whose property abutted the course would see their property values drop .

“Mr. Tyler knew his statements regard-

a modified course, new clubhouse, Top Golf driving range and 18-hole putting green by selling three parcels for construction of about 160 houses.

“There is a present dispute about whether The Edge property is required to be used only as a golf course,” he wrote.

“Moreover, there is a present dispute about the meaning and legal significance of the addendum.

“At the same time, however, there are no specific facts or plans that will cause imminent harm to the plaintiff’s members.

Accordingly, plaintiff would be well advised to include more specifics in any second amended complaint as to the nature of the specific controversy that it is asking the court to resolve.”

The judge gave the Conservancy 30 days to file a new complaint. 

ing property values were false and he failed to present any evidence to support his statements,” the suit alleges.

It also says he “consistently tried to disparage The Edge and its consultants by making false statements in an attempt to run the community and The Edge’s partners against them.”

The suit also alleges that Matt Tyler “held the CWC out as a financially resourced group, many with financial backgrounds who see the need for a range of options, from ‘minimal expense’ to ‘deluxe remediation’ of the property” and that the Conservancy made “false statements” in order “to create the false impression that it held some basket of rights to the use” of the golf course.

It said he made “material misrepresentations” that harmed The Edge’s reputation and caused it “commercial detriment.”

“The Edge has been damaged by Mr. Tyler’s unfair competition in an amount to be proven at trial, but in all cases no less than $5,000,000,” the suit also states.

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Taxpayers on hook for $1M in lawyer fees

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rizona taxpayers must pick up the tab for attorneys hired by Republican lawmakers who successfully killed a 2020 voter-approved plan to tax the state’s most wealthy to fund education.

In a new ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah said Arizona law entitles the lawyers hired

by Senate President Karen Fann, House Speaker Rusty Bowers and others to some compensation for the work of their lawyers in blocking Proposition 208 from ever taking effect.

But Hannah rejected as unwarranted the claims by 11 attorneys working at four separate firms that they should get near $1 million. And he chided them for also seeking to recoup the costs of routine online legal research and photocopy fees.

Hannah’s ruling in a 2018 non-jury trial set the stage for the restoration of the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course by siding with two homeowners who had sued over its 2013 closure.

The judge said none of the $250,000 he is awarding in legal fees will have to come from Invest in Arizona, the group that actually put the measure on the 2020 ballot, even though it was the lawyers for the organization that actually did most of the legal work in defending the initiative.

Hannah said giving the firms hired by the challengers what they want – and taking the cash from the initiative supporters – “would conflict with the fundamental right of the people to legislation by initiative.’’

“Such an award would have an unacceptably chilling effect on the ability and willingness of Arizona citizens to propose, advocate for and defend the initiatives that the executive and legislative branches of the state might oppose,’’ the judge wrote. “The citizens who support the initiative have no direct financial stake in its enactment.’’

So that leaves only the taxpayers to pick up the tab for the successful challenge to Proposition 208 even though a majority who turned out for the 2020 election actually voted for it.

Hannah’s ruling drew derision from Bowers. He said Republican legislative leaders and others sued because they believed that Proposition 208 was unconstitutional.

“We went after them because of what it was doing to us,’’ Bowers said, saying the plan to tax only the wealthiest to raise more money for K-12 education was a bad idea for Arizona.

“This particular judge is kind of a free spirit,’’ Bowers said. “It’s kind of a poke in the eye at us.’’

Hannah, however, said there’s a good reason to make the state liable for the legal fees.

He said it was the state’s responsibility, as the named defendant, to make the best legal arguments defending Proposition 208 once it was approved by voters.

In fact, Hannah said, the private attorney hired by the Attorney General’s Office focused only on narrow technical legal issues and never addressed the key constitutional question on which the case eventually was decided.

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Prop 208 would have effectively gone undefended on its merits,’’ the judge said. He said it was the organization’s attorneys who did “most of the heavy lifting in defense of Proposition 208.’’

The fight over the legal fees is all that’s left of Proposition 208.

Approved in 2020, it would have imposed a 3.5% tax surcharge on the incomes of those making more than $250,000 – double that for married couples filing jointly – to raise about $900 million for K-12 education.

After foes were unsuccessful in knocking it off the ballot, voters approved the plan by a margin of 51.7%. That resulted in a new lawsuit by several Republican lawmakers along with individuals who said their incomes were high enough that the proposal affected them.

Hannah initially upheld the measure. But he was overruled by the Arizona Supreme Court which concluded that there was no legal way to spend the money Proposition 208 would have raised because it bumped up against a constitutional aggregate expenditure limit on education. 

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at 11832 S. Warner Elliot Loop, started their food pantry 20 years ago, when the church was named The Ahwatukee Assembly of God. They are still affiliated with the denomination, as are other local Generation churches.

Pastor Paul Lavino, now a lay pastor with Generation Church, started the food pantry, and currently oversees the entity’s food gathering and dispersal.

“Right now we’re serving approximately 1,000 families every month,” said Lavino, who also leads the church’s Dream Maker ministry with mission trips to Cuba, the Yucatan and Rocky Point in Mexico.

“We’ve done this for 20 years, and it’s been such an important part of the community and we’ve never considered not having it, even after our merger with Generation in 2017,” he said.

He said 50 team members from the church and throughout the community, help their neighbors with longtime volunteer director Blanca Neely coordinating their efforts.

Lavino isn’t one to just oversee and direct the food pantry, the 67-year-old pre-

Lisandra Casiano and Mylena Vega sort pineapple and guacamole into meal boxes for distribution in the food pantry at Generation Church. (David Minton/AFN Staff Photographer) fers to be involved in the nitty gritty of serving local families each Wednesday and Saturday morning from 11 a.m. to noon.

Like Lavino, other area food bank supervisors are seeing a surging need for food.

“Being that we are part church, there are people who believe that we are looking at those end times,” said David Sauer, social

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“I am having more people coming in and saying ‘I have never been in this situation before,’” said Laura Quintero, a Salvation Army staff member who loads and distributes large, cardboard boxes full of produce, meat, some canned goods and other commodities to people lining up under a portable shade tent outside.

“There are a lot more people in need, “she said. “We just don’t have the ability to cover all the needs that are happening.”

Sauer says the demand is multiplied by the fact that the Salvation Army runs one of the only food pantries in Mesa that is open every day. “We are getting a lot of influx from the other food banks that have closed, as well,” he said.

To make matters worse, support for those food banks is waning.

“Individual donations from the community are down, too,” Sauer said. “We haven’t had very many donations for our food drives. But with the price of food, people aren’t donating because they need it as well.

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to work more at their other jobs and they just don’t have the time anymore. Everything is down,” he added. “It’s a weird time to be living and be doing this type of work.”

At Mesa’s United Food Bank, demand for emergency food bags from its 150 partner agencies went from 25,000 to 28,000 between June and July.

“3,000 bags is a significant increase month over month,” UFB President/ CEO Dave Richins said. “When you look at that over a longer timeline, the trend is much worse.”

Making matters more difficult is that donations are flat. United Food Bank’s three primary sources – food drives, 9-million pounds of food from local grocers, and grant money – are about what they were last year.

The pandemic is credited with making more food available now for those in need, just as demand is peaking. When it forced restaurants to close, their food was diverted into storage to be used by food banks.

While demand is up and donations are down, United Food Bank is really feeling the pinch at the gas pump, according to Richins.

“We were spending about $7,000 a month on gas in June,” he said. “And that has gone up to $12,000 in July. Basically, we are eating the increase in fuel costs.”

Valley-wide, the picture is no rosier.

“It’s a perfect storm,” said Jerry Brown, spokesman for St. Mary’s Food Bank in

Phoenix. “The price of food, gas, rent.

Everything is going up. The need is overwhelming.”

St. Mary’s serves 900 families every day right now, Monday through Friday, or about 300,000 people statewide.

“We are seeing a 60% increase in demand over the same time last year,” Brown said. “We are 200% over our food budget for the year, and we will have to purchase more. At the same time that demand is going up, our donations are going down.

We need food. Corporate donations from large retailers are a huge help.

“We have people who know where the food bank is because they used to donate.

Now, they’re coming because they need our services,” Brown said.

St. Mary’s stores between 7 and 8 million pounds of food at its 120 thousand square foot warehouse in Phoenix, about a third of which is refrigerated to hold frozen food as well as fresh produce that is trucked up to the Valley routinely from an area near Nogales.

As initiated during COVID, volunteers after assessing the family size, deliver the food boxes and bags to the clients while they wait in their cars.

At Generation Church each week, Lavino and a cadre of volunteers pick up perishable food at nine area grocery stores. This includes dairy, meat, seafood, bread and deli items.

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Saturday, Bashas’ in Chandler,” he said. “We have a refrigerated transit and a box truck.”

“This is a legit deal. We give out beef, chicken, ham, and fish. Our clients get cheese, yogurt, and juice. It’s phenomenal.

From my heart, it’s wonderful to help people who are unemployed, underemployed, single mothers and seniors.”

Providing the perishable items to clients requires dedication, commitment and time.

“It takes about four to five hours every day to pick up food and then we weigh it and sort it,” Lavino said. “We’re looking forward to getting a walk-in freezer this year.”

Lavino said operating their food pantry takes a village.

“It’s a community effort. We’re an agency of St. Mary’s Food Bank, and we have help from other churches. In fact, Mountain View Lutheran Church called us and said ‘we’re going to support your food bank because we’re closing ours’. They also send

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us money to help support us,” said Lavino.

“Central Christian Church here in Ahwatukee gave us a $2,500 gift to help us buy all new components and compressors for our refrigerated truck.”

On any given Wednesday or Saturday, a line of cars snake across the church parking lot.

“Sometimes people may feel bad for coming to the Food Pantry, but we’re here to help them through some tough times,” Lavino said. “A lot of people don’t come here because of pride, but there’s no reason for them to go hungry or without.”

Lavino said he’s proud the Generation Food Pantry has been able to help so many neighbors. As a non-profit Qualified Charitable Organization in the State of Arizona, tax credits are available for monetary donations.

“In 2021, Generation Food Pantry passed out 547,659 pounds of food to over 9,000 families,” he reported. “Our team expects to serve over 10,000 families this year.”

Also deep in the battle against hunger is the Kyrene Family Resource Center at 1330 E. Dava Drive, next to Kyrene de los Ninos Elementary School in Tempe.

The Kyrene Family Resource Center provides non-perishable food items to families of students needing help.

Operated by the Kyrene School District with the support of The Kyrene Foundation, it assists Kyrene families and employees with immediate needs including food, hygiene supplies, school supplies, gently used school clothing and connections to outside agencies and resources who might be able to help further.

It is a time of increased need for Kyrene students and their families, said Erin Schroeder, program manager for Kyrene’s Federal Programs & Outreach Department.

“In the first three days of this week, we gave away over 300 food baskets, and that broke the record,” she said.

She also noted that services for students who are homeless or lacking secure hous-

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“The McKinney Vento Act of 1994 provides services to homeless children. In our first week, we’ve seen our numbers more than double over last year,” she said.

Both Generation Food Bank and Kyrene Family Resource Center are on Facebook.

Needs for various food donations are updated weekly on the Kyrene Family Resource Center Facebook page.

The center is open Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and one Saturday a month with date and hours posted weekly on Facebook. Delivery of food or other donations can be made during these times.

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“And there’s been a lot of mass exodus of teachers. I’ve heard a lot of mentor teachers of mine have already moved on to different professions, but I am confident in my ability to be able to help these students.”

Felix comes from a family of immigrants and hopes the diverse population of students at Mountain Pointe will see some of themselves in him.

“I think something that’s really important for students from these backgrounds is to have teachers who look like them who represent or who have similar experiences and values,” he said.

“That’s what I’m hoping that at least me as an individual can bring to Mountain Pointe and bring to my students, a story and experience of background that my students will be able to look at and look at my stories and you know, create that relationship,” he explained.

Desert Vista newcomers Donna Upton, 22, and Alexander DeMattio, 26, are just as eager to get on campus this Thursday.

Teaching runs in Upton’s family. Up until middle school she was homeschooled by her mother, who also ignited her passion for teaching.

“I really liked watching her teach,” explained Upton. “And I think when you’re little, you kind of want to be like your parents.”

Upton just completed her time as a student teacher at Perry High School. Math is her forte. She’s intrigued by the many methods to teaching it, but holds a strong belief that students should understand the reasoning behind it, so they are not stranded when they find a problem they are unfamiliar with solving.

“It’s important to teach kids to be able to solve problems themselves,” explained Upton. Because our brains are capable of so much. The logic behind math is more important than the procedures we so often associate with it.”

Upton graduated from ASU last May and is also a graduate of Tempe Union’s Corona del Sol High. She even applied to teach there.

“I found a lot of friendships in mathematics, like solving problems with my friends. I think that’s why I gravitated towards that in university,” said Upton.

She looks forward to joining aboard Desert Vista’s math department.

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The 26-year-old has come all the way from Orlando, Florida, where he worked his way through college as a retail store manager. But now he is ready to make an impact in the classroom, just like his own teachers did for him.

“I had a couple of teachers that were really impactful when I was in high school.

They kind of showed what it looked like to foster growth. And it was really inspiring. It looked like they had fun, like they weren’t clocking in and clocking out, they didn’t have to go to work, they got to go to work,” said DeMattio.

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Mountain Pointe High’s new teachers can’t wait to meet their students when classes begin tomorrow. (Enrique Garcia/AFN Contributor)

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pparently expecting the Phoenix Police Department to come under protracted U.S. Justice Department oversight in the near future, City Manager Jeff Barton last week announced the hiring of an interim top cop with experience in meeting the demands of federal overseers.

Replacing retiring Chief Jeri Williams, Michael Sullivan will become Phoenix Police interim police chief on Sept. 22 after serving the last three years of his 33-year law enforcement career as Deputy Commissioner of the Compliance Bureau for the Baltimore Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Michael Sullivan has Police Department. been named Phoenix Police interim chief. (Baltimore Police Baltimore Police came Department) under the microscope since 2017 for excessive force, sloppy investi- people in mental crisis; and violates the gation of rape cases, community engage- rights of unsheltered people by confiscatment and unconstitutional stops and ar- ing their belongings.

Phoenix so far has spent $1.9 million to rests.

The federal review was prompted by the meet the demands of federal investigadeath of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black tors, Barton told City Council June 30.

It is paying nine full-time employees to man whose neck was broken in the back of a transport wagon, and whose death gather materials requested by the Justice Department and has so far provided inroiled the city.

Baltimore incurred $10.5 million in in- vestigators with 80,931 documents totalvestigation costs and has budgeted $38.6 ing close to 1.1 million pages, according million this year alone for its compliance to Barton’s June 30 memo to Council. The bureau in connection with the consent nature of those documents was not disdecree it signed with Justice Department closed.

Additionally, the city facilitated visits lawyers.

A new progress report noted substantial from Justice Department investigators progress but said considerable work re- in April and May that involved precinct mains, according to the Washington Post. tours, interviews with police and civilian Phoenix for nearly a year has been un- personnel, ride-alongs and 14 panel interder Justice Department scrutiny in five views with three to six city employees at a time, according to the memo. broad areas of police conduct.

Investigators also observed police acadThey include allegations that department: uses excessive force, including emy classes and the city has devoted deadly force; engages in discriminatory personnel to maintaining a web page to practices; retaliates against protestors or provide citizens with an update on the demonstrators; deals inadequately with see CHIEF page 22 behavioral health issues on calls with

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City Council candidate Joan Greene of Ahwatukee posted the map on the left to illustrate the location of the Scottsdale home that Kevin Robinson, pictured on the right, and his wife own in Scottsdale, using a carpetbag to show the location of the garden home in Ahwatukee that he rented last fall. Ahwatukee businessman Moses Sanchez, pictured in the middle, went to court to have Robinson kicked off the Nov. 8 City Council ballot.

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ly and thoughtfully to bring consensus on complex issues. He puts service to his community first.”

His campaign chairman is former mayor Greg Stanton, who was unopposed in the primary for his third term in Congress.

His supporters also include three other former Phoenix mayors, Ahwatukee state Sen. Sean Bowie and other Democratic luminaries throughout the Valley.

Robinson has raised just $10,000 less than the combined total garnered so far by five of his six competitors, according to campaign financial statements filed with the Phoenix City Clerk.

He has raised $353,728 and spent $43,572.

The other candidates and what they have raised so far for the Nov. 8 election are: Mark Moeremans, $161,569; Sanchez, $107,086; Sam Stone, $49,920; Kellen Wilson, $27,750; and Greene, $16,936. The seventh candidate, Juan Schoville, does not appear to have filed any financial reports.

In a petition filed in Superior Court to eliminate Robinson, Sanchez notes that the City Charter requires council members at the time of their ballot nominations to maintain a permanent residence within the district they aim to represent.

“Since filing his nomination paperwork and through today, his petition states, “Defendant Robinson has not maintained his permanent residence within the City of Phoenix, much less within District 6. He has been living with his family in Scottsdale.” The petition cites ”overwhelming” evidence to show Robinson does not really live in a garden home he leased on Winston Drive in Ahwatukee.

The petition cited: video of Robinson at the Scottsdale residence; his use of a UPS Store on Ray Road in Ahwatukee as his mailing address on his nomination form; a log from his doorbell camera at the Ahwatukee home that shows “only six dates since at least June 30, 2022, on which it has detected anyone in the vicinity of his house.”

In addition, records from a “Nest” digital thermostat “shows that the temperature in the leased home is always set to 86 degrees.

“Not only is this an uncomfortable temperature for anyone to actually be living in the home during the Phoenix summer, but Nest thermostats are designed to detect when there are people present in the home,” the petition states.

“The Nest thermostat has not detected anyone in the home,” it says, adding SRP

reports show “electricity usage at the home has also been minimal since January 2022.

“Finally, defendant Robinson’s lease is a one-year lease that expires on Sept. 30, 2022 – well before Election Day on Nov. 8 – which indicates no intent to remain in the home, if he were even there to begin with.”

The home Robinson leased was last sold in January 2021 for $386,000, according to the real estate platform redfin.

According to an ad on rent.com offering it for lease at $2,750 a month, the three-bedroom, two-bath house has 1,596 square feet of living space “on a hard to find cul de sac lot in the popular Pointe South Mountain.”

Sanchez said he got curious about Robinson after AFN reported on his campaign website as an Ahwatukee resident.

The report also quoted Robinson’s campaign website, which lists his 36-year career as a police officer that culminated with his promotion to assistant police chief in 2000 – a position he held for 13 years.

Robinson also teaches at Arizona State University and is a member of the Arizona Supreme Court Judicial Council, a policymaking body that oversees the state’s judicial system; the Arizona Police Officers Standards and Training Board, which as-

sesses police officers’ credibility, among other things, in disciplinary cases; and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Community Advisory Board.

Sanchez said he was baffled because “I know just about every police officer, retired police officer that lives in our town.

I know all these other guys. I’ve never heard of this guy before.”

Unbeknownst to Sanchez, Greene also became curious about Robinson’s residency claim because she, like Sanchez, has lived in Ahwatukee for more than a decade.

She began looking into property records and found Robinson’s home in Scottsdale, which he and his wife bought in 2020 – two years after they bought a home in San Francisco they still own.

“Kevin Robinson does not own a home in Phoenix,” her website states. “You will have to ask Scottsdale Kevin’s well-known political connections why they support him crossing city boundaries to run in Phoenix instead of for the Scottsdale City Council.

Lax residency qualifications for candidacy is why it’s not illegal, but our community believes it is unethical.”

Greene on Monday said, “None of the 12 signatures Robinson collected himself

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Calling the offenses “non-dangerous and non-repetitive,” the lawyer for Justin Walters, 30, said in legal papers “the criminal record and convictions speak for themselves” and that Walters “is sorry for his misconduct and any resulting harm.”

Those acts he admitted to include sexually grooming the girl when she was 14 in 2019 through texts and other social media platforms, making sexual comments and touching her when he was a chaperone on a school field trip to Disneyland that year, serving her alcohol and having sexual contact with her during another school trip to Puerto Rico and beginning a series of sexual encounters from June 2019 through late December 2020.

Justin Walters sat grimly during his two-hour sentencing hearing May 27 next to his attorney, RJ Suzuki, as prosecution witnesses called him a “Pied Piper” with Desert Garden Montessori female students. A ifferent lawyer is representing Walters in the civil suit.

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His lawyer also states, “Justin Walters denies that defendants Shetal Walters and James Walters had personal knowledge of his misconduct prior to Dec. 23, 2020.”

It was on that date that Walters told his parents about his misdeeds after the victim had told him she was telling police.

During his sentencing on May 27, the victim described in graphic detail how he started his seduction as “the first boy to call me beautiful, to make me feel confident about myself” and how it evolved from intimate touches and salacious messages into a sordid first sexual encounter on an air mattress in his pickup truck that was nothing short of rape – though she

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“He placed himself in a position of a trusted and caring person who could save me from my situation and give me the love that I wanted,” the victim said. “He made me believe that I was special. When you’re young and insecure and seeking validation, that’s what you’re looking for. He knew this and used it against me.”

She recalled how Walters “told me I was lucky to have him and he was sacrificing so much to be with me and I should be grateful for that. He made me feel like I was in the driver’s seat, that it couldn’t be wrong: I was the one choosing it. I was made to feel like everything was my responsibility, keeping this a secret. And I believed him.”

She described how he was “extremely touchy” with other girls at the school and “even wrestled with them while they were in bikinis on a school trip.”

Walters would ask girls for pictures of their dates and details about their sex life, bought a student an emergency contraceptive pill during a school trip to Puerto Rico. She recalled how he gave students a lift in his pickup truck and had them look into the console, where he had a stack of condoms.

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came from Ahwatukee. ...I personally (in person) collected the signatures from the people from Robinson’s shadow house neighborhood. His wife did not sign because she is registered in Scottsdale.”

Robinson testifed that he had lived on W. Hidden View Drive in Ahwatkee until 2011, when he married his wife, Dr. Michelle Robinson and moved into her home on N. 53rd Street, which he said is in District 6.

He said he and his wife bought the Scottsdale property because she’s a physician at Mayo Hospital Phoenix and Scottsdale is much closer to it than Ahwatukee.

A private detective testified that the name of the owner of that Scottsdale house is blacked out on county property records but that he determined through other official records it is owned by a trust set up by Robinson and his wife.

Calling himself “the presumptive frontrunner” in the council race, Robinson testified Monday campaign records listing the UPS store as his address do not require his home address. He also pro-

“He would beg me to sleep with other men in front of him,” she testified. “He convinced me that this relationship was just special, that it wasn’t a problem and it was socially acceptable in other parts of the world.”

As the pressure of his abuse took its mental and emotional toll on her, the victim said she told Walters she wanted to tell her girlfriend. He told her it would kill his mother, who owns the school where he was a teacher, and that it would ruin the school.

Her aunt, a teacher at the school, described him as “a dangerous person” who cloaked his predatory conduct with “his charming and charismatic personality.”

In his response to the lawsuit, the lawyer for the disgraced ex-teacher denied Rasmussen’s allegation that Justin’s parents and other staffers at Desert Garden were aware of his ongoing relationship with the teen.

“Defendant Justin Walters does not know what other people knew, should have known or personally witnessed,” Sorenson wrote.

As for Rasmussen’s allegation that Walters’ “extreme and outrageous” actions caused the girl “to suffer severe emotional distress,” Sorenson replied that the accusations “are not factual in nature.” 

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He also said the Ring camera on the front door of his Ahwatukee home does not show him much because he began using the back door when he was advised by his wife and campaign aides that political operatives could be “spying” on him.

He said he and his wife are looking for a new home in District 6, noting “I had not contemplated not winning” the election.

Sanchez’s attorney, Dennis Wilenchik, argued Robinson was not a permanent Phoenix resident as required by law.

“He took the basic steps that every candidate knows to do to make it look like you’re actually residing in the district,” Wilenchik said, noting Robinson himself admitted renting the home “just to run for office” and that “we have inconvtrovertible evidence his family does not live there.”

Attorney Daniel Arellano, representing Robinson, argued Sanchez had not presented “clear and convincing evidence” Robinson does not meet city residency requirements and that his client “demonstrated overwhelmingly” lives in District 6. 

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For the week ending July 23, the median listing price continued its 32nd straight week of double-digit growth, shooting up by 16.6% over last year.

“However, these sky-high asking prices are just that: an ask,” the website stated.

“Buyers just aren’t biting like they used to. As a result, the portion of home sellers who resorted to cutting their price in June doubled to 14.9% from 7.6% last year.”

Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale noted, “Although home prices have not retreated, homeowners seem to be aware of the shifting market dynamic.

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for these buyers to realize how strong a hand of cards they hold.”

The Cromford Report identified five other communities whether neither buyer nor seller has a distinct advantage in sale negotiations. They include Tempe, Chandler, Surprise, Peoria and Gilbert.

But it’s sellers in those five areas that need to be a little nervous, it added.

“Astute sellers will realize that the situation is very fluid and slipping away from them,” the report said.

“At the current rate of change, Gilbert will become a buyer’s market by the end of the first week in August. Tempe is only a day or two behind Gilbert, while Surprise, Chandler and Peoria will probably

ingness to sell.”

The number of new listings on the market dropped by 6% year over year for the week ending July 23—that’s the third straight week of decline.

“But Realtor.com also noted that inventory overall is up by 30% over a year ago.

“The improvement for buyers essentially means they have four choices today for every three they had one year ago,” Hale explained.

Realtor.com noted that “in a larger context, active listings for the entire month of June remain less than half their level a year earlier.”

“Today’s shoppers have more options,” Hale said. “But the market needs even more before the selection is on par with the pre-pandemic or even the early-pandemic housing market.”

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As for Phoenix, it’s in the same boat as Glendale and Mesa in Cromford Report’s opinion.

They “are seller’s markets but within a couple of days will enter the balance zone between 90 and 110. At the current rate of change, they will become buyer’s market before the end of August. Goodyear and Avondale are two weeks behind these but unlikely to be still seller’s market by the end of next month.”

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While the latest monthly figures show homes getting snapped up within 32 days, the website said, this pace seems to be finally bottoming out.

“For the first time in two years, weekly data show that homes aren’t selling faster than in the prior year,” Hale explained.

“They’re not yet taking longer to sell, but if recent trends continue, an increase in the time a home sits for sale is on the horizon.

That should eventually help alleviate buyers’ sense that they need to rush to make an offer.”

According to Freddie Mac, for the week ending July 28, the average 30year fixed mortgage rate dropped to 5.3% – down from the previous week’s average of 5.54%.

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where homes $1.5 million and above have not been tilting as sharply and quickly from a sellers’ to a buyers’ market as the rest of the Valley, according to the report.

However, the Cromford Report said Scottsdale is appearing as it will soon join the overall trend dominating the rest of the Valley.

The Cromford Report also suggested bigger changes in the Valley’s housing market could occur before the end of the year.

“Prices have looked wobbly for the last two months,” it said. “But as buyers start to flex their muscles, we should be prepared for more serious consequences. While we cannot forecast accurately several months out, it would be reasonable based on current trends to expect significant declines in average prices, median prices and average price per square foot by the end of 2022. Current trends can – and often do – change, so this is not baked in, just a reasonable base case.”

It also said the rapid growth in inventory might slow down soon but without a corresponding uptick in demand.

“What is going to re-start demand?” it asked. “The most obvious answers are that either interest rates have to come down or home prices have to come down. Either or both of these can increase demand so we can get back to a balanced market again.”

Builders apparently are slowly reacting to the changing housing scene.

for homebuyers will last is anyone’s guess,” Realtor.com said.

“Adding to the turmoil, the Federal Reserve approved yet another interest rate hike on Wednesday of three-quarters of a percentage point – the fourth increase in five months – in its ongoing fight to curb inflation by dampening Americans’ desire to spend or borrow, as most do for housing,” it continued.

“And so far at least, the Fed’s efforts appear to be having the desired effect on homebuyers, many of whom are thinking twice about whether to forge ahead.”

Hale said that because inflation continues to exceed expectations, data show that the Fed’s policy adjustment is cooling housing demand.

“The forward-looking pending home sales data suggests further cooling on the horizon,” Hale added. 

“Single-family permits are now dropping in response to the weak demand but probably not as fast as they should,” the Cromford Report said.

It reported that as of June 30, 17,788 single-family building permits have been issued so far this year in Maricopa and Pinal counties year-to-date – down only slightly from 18,803 last year for the first six months of 2021.

“There were only 2,248 single-family permits issued in June, which is the lowest monthly total since May 2020,” the Cromford Report said.

At the same time, multifamily developers aren’t slowing down at all and are at what the Cromford Report called “a fullbore gung-ho status.”

In the first six months of this year, a record 8,640 multi-family permits were issued in Maricopa and Pinal counties.

“Last year there were 6,871 at the same point and that was considered a lot,” the Cromford Report said. “There were 1,890 issued in June, making it the fourth busiest month ever.” 

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How to stay safe from rental scams in the Valley

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s inflation rates have skyrocketed, housing scams are on the rise. Scammers are increasingly targeting renters and potential home buyers.

Across the country, rental and housing scams have cost victims millions. According to the FBI, thousands of people nationwide reported losing hundreds of millions of dollars last year in rental scams, increasing by 64% from the previous year.

This year, the Phoenix area has seen the largest inflation rate in the country, at 12.3%.

Local bureaus around the country have warned that housing scams are likely to skyrocket, taking advantage of individuals looking for affordable housing on the back of some of the highest rent increases we have seen in U.S. history.

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The first is potential tenants filling out a housing application with sensitive details such as their social security number and other personal information and never hearing back from the “landlord.”

The other way these scams manifest are through people being asked for large deposits by “landlords” and not hearing anything once the money has left their hands.

The common thread for these scams is that these rentals are typically listed below market value and tenants are incentivized to submit their application in a hurry due to a shortage in affordable housing and high demand due to inflation.

But how do you avoid getting scammed while looking for affordable housing?

First, never rent without seeing the place in person or sending a trusted contact to see it on your behalf. If you’re unable to be there in person, schedule a video walkthrough.

Typically, in rental scams, the “landlord” advertising the property doesn’t actually

have a way to access the inside. If a “landlord” refuses to show you the inside of a property, it is almost certainly a scam.

Before signing a lease, thoroughly research the rental company or verify the owner of the property. Ask for proof of homeownership (eg. a title deed) in order to verify that the homeowner has the rights to rent out the property.

When working with a large rental company, research their reviews and if you are in email correspondence with anyone, verify that they are emailing you from a legitimate company domain.

Never give out your Social Security number or other personal information without having met the landlord or having done thorough research.

If you are required to provide your Social Security number or other sensitive information prior to viewing the property, it may be a scam.

Conversely, if someone is willing to rent to you without requiring any of the above information at any point in the

process, this may also be indicative of a scam.

If you believe that you’ve been scammed, reach out to the Federal Trade Commission Consumer Response Center, file a claim on the Internet Crime Complaint Center, notify local authorities of the details of your situation and the person who scammed you, contact a legal advisor or lawyer, and leave a negative review on the scam ad to ensure that no one else will fall into this trap.

As trust continues to break down online and financial fraud becomes more prevalent, it is imperative that individuals take steps to mitigate their risk of becoming victims of such scams.

With rising inflation and high demand for affordable housing, it’s more important than ever to stay vigilant while on the search for a new home or apartment and report any suspicious activity.

the last two to three months, mortgage companies are offering more competitive closing costs and interest rates to attract additional buyers.

Many borrowers are continuing to feel the pinch, and some are being priced out altogether due to the sharp rise in interest since the start of the year.

Competition remains strong amongst those who can afford to buy. That pool is steadily shrinking, with applications falling to a 22-year low, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

between 20 to 25%, which was a total anomaly. What our market did last year, in terms of appreciation, was what it did the three years before combined.

Forecasts at the beginning of 2022 projected another 20% appreciation. After the year’s second quarter, the forecast has been cut from 20% to 5%.

The mortgage rate increase, alongside the war in Ukraine and inflated gas and grocery costs have widely impacted the projected home appreciation values for the remainder of the year.

All markets are cyclical: real estate, finance, the job market. The rollercoaster can’t always keep going up. The jump in inflation, stock market volatility and negative GDP have all happened very rapidly.

The rate that Arizonans will see in depreciation will be much less than those living in a smaller state. With Arizona’s job growth rate, the desirable geographical location for retirees and young families alike, and general influx of new residents, the housing outlook for Arizona remains strong.

These factors provide enough of a cushion as a local economy and local market to stay afloat.

Retraction, softening, slow down, downturn… no matter what you call it, home value appreciation is not going to go up like last year, or how we initially thought it would at the start of 2022.

With both mortgage and federal interest rates on a turbulent ride this year, we stay the course and continue to help our clients navigate the market according to their plans and priorities.

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ith inflation rising and the Federal Reserve poised to make steady hikes, mortgage rates are falling after rapid jumps in June.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell slightly last month to 5.76 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Interest rates have come down significantly over the last few weeks – between a half to three quarters of a percent – totaling thousands of dollars of savings over a year.

What does this mean for the average buyer?

Another $20,000 to $40,000 of purchasing power that they did not have a few weeks ago.

With concerns mounting over a possible economic recession and new mortgage applications in a steady decline over

Will the housing market continue to “normalize” over the remainder of the year?

We believe the housing market is going to see a deceleration, and hopefully not depreciation.

A deceleration is expected through the flurry of activity that is listings, closings, days on the market, price reductions, expired listings, etc. In terms of home value appreciation, with each passing month, that figure has reversed.

Last year, homes in Arizona appreciated

What is the trajectory of the rollercoaster?

The downward trends we’ve been seeing month-over-month recently are in as steep of a decline as we saw during the last market correction. The market is softening and softening rapidly.

Logan Hall is the director of operations, development and recruiting at RE/MAX Fine Properties and is in the top 1% of agents worldwide. Information: fineprop.com 

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wo Chandler shopping centers – including The Falls at Ocotillo – changed owners this month in multimillion-dollar deals.

The Krausz Companies, a national real estate investment and management company in Las Vegas, shelled out $24 million for The Falls, 1025-1095 W. Queen Creek Road, according to Valley real estate tracker vizzda.com.

Built in phases between 2002 and 2006, the strip mall’s nearly 70,000 square feet of retail space sit on 9.17 acres. The sale price equaled $346 a square foot, vizzda said.

Meanwhile, another big retail-center deal occurred in the city’s northern section two weeks ago when the Chandler Pavilions was purchased by Schnitzer Properties of Portland, Oregon, for just under 4082 sqft 5 bedrooms, 4 baths

$30 million, according to vizzda..

Built between 1999 and 2002 at the intersection of 54th Street and Ray Road, the Chandler Pavilions’ five buildings totaling 160,673 square feet of retail space sit on 17.97 acres. The property that was sold represents about a third of a total 400,000 square feet of retail space on that site.

The center is fully leased and includes well-known brands such as REI, Bed Bath & Beyond and Sportsman’s Warehouse and is anchored by Sam’s Club and The Home Depot.

Schnitzer Properties is a 70-year-old real estate investment and development company that recently changed its named from Harsch Properties.

The sale price was nearly three times the $10.5 million that seller Evergreen Properties paid when it bought the five buildings two years ago, vizzda says.

In marketing the buildings, Evergreen

said the Pavilions averages more than 62,000 visits a week and draws an estimated 800,000 unique visitors annually.

It said about 58% of those visitors spend an average minimum of 30 minutes shopping. “Over 70% of visitors are loyal, averaging more than four visits a year,” a marketing brochure also said.

Two downtown Chandler buildings that sold for $6.1 million earlier this month will be giving away to a mini-mall.

Beeline Shops LLC, a subsidiary of Scottsdale-based Southwest Retail, bought the buildings at 315 and 325 S. Arizona Ave. at Frye Road, according to Valley real estate tracker vizzda.com.

One of the buildings already has been razed and the other is gutted.

Once construction is completed, a building totaling 6,400 square feet on less than an acre of land will have room for two more retail establishments in addition to

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two prospective tenants the owners already have secured.

Black Rock Coffee Bar and El Taco Santo already will be located in the new structure, according to vizzda and marketing materials it included in its report.

The sale broke down to $953 per square foot, vizzda reported.

Vizzda reported that Southwest Retail Group obtained a $2.9 million mortgage as part of the overall deal.

Prime Commercial Advisors’ marketing brochure is touting the property’s location to Chandler City Hall and 15,000 daytime workers with jobs within a mile of the site.

Southwest Realty Group is a real estate brokerage that provides a variety of services, including development. According to its website, it has developed over six million square feet of office and commercial space in seven states since its formation in 1987. 

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orget, for a moment, what you’ve heard about a housing correction.

Home sellers continued to rake it in at the fastest pace in more than a decade in the second quarter of the year.

Record-high home prices helped them to sell their properties for about 55.5% more than what they originally paid for them, according to a recent report from real estate data provider ATTOM. That translated into the average home seller earning a $123,869 profit on the sale of their condos and single-family abodes over a short time span. Sellers in the second quarter spent only an average of 5.87 years in their homes before putting them on the market, according to the report.

“Home sellers in the second quarter continued to benefit from the rapid growth in home price appreciation the country has

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“Florida has seen a huge influx of outof-state purchases from both traditional homebuyers fleeing from high-priced, high-tax states like New York and from investors looking for affordable fix-and-flip and rental properties,” Sharga said.

“This influx was fueled in part by employees now having the opportunity to work from home, and opting for a more affordable location which also offered a high quality of life. Florida home prices were a relative bargain compared to states like New York, New Jersey, and California.”

The rest of the metros with the highest year-over-year jump in profits were mainly in Florida, with one in Mississippi, and Yuma, which was at 77.8% com-

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This report was supplied by Realtor.com.

Meanwhile, profits fell annually in only 20, or 11%, of the 183 metros that ATTOM analyzed. Those included some areas of Oregon, Hawaii, Maryland and New York.

Eight counties in the Chicago metropolitan area and six in the New York metro were among the 50 most at-risk real estate markets in the nation, according to a recent report from ATTOM. The rest were mostly on the East Coast, particularly in the Cleveland and Philadelphia metros, in the Midwest, and in inland California.

The report was based on housing affordability, local unemployment rates, foreclosures rates, and the number of mortgages where homeowners owe more than their properties are worth in 586 U.S. counties in the first quarter of 2022.

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experienced over the past few years,” Rick Sharga, ATTOM’s executive vice president of market intelligence, said in a statement.

“While price growth may slow down as higher mortgage rates dampen demand from prospective homebuyers, home sellers should continue to profit.”

In addition, all-cash purchases made up just over a third, 35.4%, of sales in the second quarter. That’s the highest percentage in eight years.

Sellers in Florida experienced the biggest increase in their paydays over the past year as Americans flocked to the Sunshine State during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the Fort Myers, Florida, metropolitan area, sellers received on average about 90.9% more than what they paid for their homes—compared with 47.1% a year earlier. The city is a popular retirement and vacation destination.

Metros include the main city and sur-

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he housing market, which received a turbo boost from the COVID-19 pandemic, has begun to shift.

Surging mortgage interest rates are rippling through the housing market, threatening to upend real estate’s unprecedented year. These changes led the Realtor.com economic research team to revisit its 2022 housing forecast, issued in December, and make some adjustments.

The updated midyear forecast factors reflect these higher rates—and the disruptions they’ve already begun to cause.

Realtor.com expects home prices and mortgage rates will continue to rise, home sales will drop as buyers are priced out of homeownership, and the housing market will continue to cool.

However, in a bright spot for frustrated homebuyers, the number of homes on the market is expected to shoot up.

Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale says, “More homes for sale will help bring back more balance and sanity to the market.”

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Mortgage rates are now anticipated to hit 5.5% by the end of the year—a rate expected to continue sidelining buyers already grappling with record-high home prices.

Initially, the Realtor.com economists predicted they would hit only 3.6% for 30-year fixed-rate loans. However, rates hit a high of 5.3% last month before settling in at around 5.1%, according to Freddie Mac data.

The lower projection was made before persistent inflation became a thorn in the side of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Fed is now hellbent on taming those runaway prices by hiking interest rates—causing historically low mortgage rates to soar.

“Rising interest rates have shifted the foundation of the economy as well as the housing market,” says Hale. “It’s causing buyers to make tough trade-offs and disrupting the housing market.”

A median-priced home of $447,000 with a 3.6% mortgage rate would command a roughly $1,626 monthly mortgage payment. (This is for buyers who put down 20% and doesn’t include property taxes or home insurance.)

Boosting the mortgage rate to 5.5%

translates into buyers paying about $400 more a month—nearly $5,000 more a year, and roughly $45,000 over the 30year life of their loans.

Buyers have descended onto the housing market, scrambling to win bidding wars before rates surge even higher. The Realtor.com economists believe prices will be 6.6% higher by year’s end.

While that’s still a conservative estimate given the recent spike in home prices, which rose 17.6% year over year in May, the rise is more than double the 2.9% appreciation economists had foreseen in their original forecast.

“Our home price projection is going up as we’re seeing a lot of sticking power in prices and price growth,” says Hale. “We do still expect home prices to cool, but we’re starting at a higher price point.”

Those budget-busting rates and prices are expected to slow home sales. Instead of the number of home purchases ticking up, the Realtor.com economists now predict sales of existing houses will drop 6.7% compared with last year.

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“Were it not for last year’s extraordinary sales numbers, this would be a very good year,” says Hale. “We’re a long way from a crash.”

In some welcome news for buyers, all of these forces at play are expected to give the number of homes for sale a big boost.

Inventory is expected to increase by 15% this year. That’s a game changer for the market and is a significant jump from an earlier estimate of just a 0.3% bump.

Builders have found ways to overcome a myriad of challenges, from supply chain woes making it difficult—and expensive—to source materials and appliances to construction worker shortages.

The Realtor.com economists now expect housing starts to hit a 16-year high this year.

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Charming Portofino Villa on an AMAZING END LOT in the GATED, ADULT COMMUNITY of Oakwood The Beautiful Entry Opens to Dining & Family Rooms. The EAT-IN Kitchen features WHITE CABINETS, GRANITE Countertops & GAS Stove w/ tons of cabinet/counter space & large Dining Area. The SPACIOUS Master Suite has double sinks, large shower & WALK-IN CLOSET. The 2nd Bedroom is split from the Master, has a WALK-IN CLOSET & next to the full Guest Bath. Plus New 20’’ Tile t/out & Paint, Newer Trane HVAC & lots of cabinets in 2-car garage. COVERED PATIO overlooks the HOA MAINTAINED GREENBELT! COME ENJOY the Good Life w/ golf, tennis, pickle ball, pools/spas, fitness center, clubs, social activities & restaurants!

Beautiful move-in-ready 4 bed, 2.5 bath. 3,002 sq ft. Upgraded kitchen with lots of counters! SS appliances, granite, upgraded cabinetry overlook a highly upgraded pool. Master bedroom deck has INCREDIBLE vistas East, incl. South Mountain. Formal living and dining rooms, upgraded paint and flooring are just part of the fun of this home. A new TESLA solar/ battery system saves tons of $$. Nearby NEW Phoenix city park for hiking and biking, easy access off the 202.

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Ahwatukee family feels blood shortage uncertainty

BY SAMANTHA MORRIS AFN Staff Writer

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very three weeks, Adelyn Troutman goes into the hospital for a blood transfusion and every time her Ahwatukee family holds their breath.

They never know if that blood will be available.

The 6-year-old girl suffers from the rare Diamond Blackfan Anemia, a condition that prevents her from developing her own red blood cells.

There’s always a need for blood because she needs a transfusion every month, but these days, the circumstances are even more troubling.

“You always have that concern of whether or not there will be blood available for her,” said Adelyn’s father Matt Troutman.

“But even more so now.”

Since the pandemic began, there has been a 12% drop in blood donors every year nationwide.

But while experts say COVID-19 has made blood collection more difficult because of donor fears and staffing shortages at collection centers, the prestigious Tufts University says “the blood donation landscape as a whole has really changed” for several years before COVID-19 was ever known.

“Older adults, who account for a large percentage of donations, are aging and younger donors are not replacing them quickly enough,” it said. “With fewer centers and fewer donors, the system is not as responsive as before and it’s not always possible to meet unexpected surges in demand.”

In Arizona, blood organizations like Vitalant, are working to combat it. Over the July 4 weekend, it held a two-day drive and collected enough “to provide 466 red blood cell transfusions.

“We had hoped to see more donors, but were pleased that we came so close to bringing in a full day’s blood needs,”

said Vitalant’s communication manager, Sue Thew.

But now that more people are scheduling essential surgeries they put off during the pandemic, blood is being used faster than it can be provided.

Lifestyle shifts like working from home, have limited potential blood drive locations like offices. Additionally, generally reliable young adults and teenage donors in schools are off for the summer.

For Troutman, combatting an overall lack of awareness is important.

“When everybody was working in the office, blood buses would come to the workplace and everybody would have some sort of incentive or just feel obligated to go do it,” said Troutman.

He and his wife Kami Troutman host a biannual blood drive in Ahwatukee and sometimes people believe that their donation is directly serving Adelyn,

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that grows on South Mountain.

Society spokeswoman Elizabeth Farquhar of Ahwatukee said, “Fielding became fascinated with cacti when he was a teenager. Today his home is a showcase of cacti from the Southwest and around the world. Part of his backyard is a nursery for plants he is raising from seed.”

Fielding himself talked about his fascination with cacti and succulents in a piece in “Central Spine,” a newsletter published by the Central Arizona Cactus and Succulent Society (centralarizonacactus.org).

“I was interested in horticulture from a very young age,” he wrote. “Growing up on a small family dairy farm in Wisconsin, I started working in the garden as a lad. This interest in plants caused me to go to the local college library after seeing some cacti at a friend’s house.

the Troutman Family)

Ahwatukee cacti expert to give online talk

A Cliff Fielding of Ahwatukee will share his extensive knowledge of Arizona cacti during a Zoom presentation next Tuesday. (Special to AFN)

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At 6 years of age, Adelyn Troutman recently had her 100th monthly blood transfusion amid a nationwide shortage of blood that has health officials concerned. (Courtesy of

n Ahwatukee man who has studied, raised and rescued cacti in Arizona for most of his life will be the guest speaker at a free ZOOM discussion sponsored by the Desert Rivers Audubon Society at 7 p.m. next Tuesday, Aug. 9.

People can sign up for the Zoom presentation by Cliff Fielding at desertriversaudubon.org, Wildlife that live in the Sonoran Desert are increasingly challenged to survive and thrive.

Fielding will discuss: the effects of the extended drought in Arizona • How the desert has recovered from the Bush fire of two years ago; a large volunteer group based in Tucson that saves cacti from developers; and a unique plant

“For quite some time, my interest was in finding more books on cacti and succulents through library loan. In one of the books, I found that it was possible to join societies and send away for seeds.”

He said he caught the “raising from seed bug” and first moved to New Mexico to start a nursery to produce seeds.

“Once the ball got rolling, it just kept on going. My wife and I started Mesa Garden in 1976, and pretty much the rest is history. One of the best parts of the work was taking trips to see plants in nature, and we continue to do this now.”

Fielding said he sold Mesa Garden in 2016 to retire and he and his wife “now are as busy as ever with plants, growing from seed and family.”

Desert Rivers is the local Audubon chapter in the East Valley and hosts ex-

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‘H.O.L.I. Bowlers’ tournament to support orphanage

Hands of Love International ministry, which evolved from a mission trip sponsored by Mountain Park Church in Ahwatukee, is holding a H.O.L.I. Bowlers Tournament to raise money for the construction of an orphanage in Honduras. The group has grown into an international rescue group that helps children who live in extreme poverty in both Honduras and Nicaragua. Charity The event will be 6-9 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Main Event, 8545 S. Emerald Drive, Tempe, and will feature a raffle, awards, food and fun.

Registration is $500 for a team with a maximum six players and $100 for individuals.

Registration: brenda@handsofloveinternational.org, 602-762-2245 or handsofloveinternational.org. People who can’t attend can directly contribute to the group at handsofloveinternational.org.

Pinal sheriff and wife highlight ARW breakfast

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and his wife Janel are the featured speakers at the Ahwatukee Republican Women’s breakfast at 9:15 a.m. Aug. 23 at Foothills Golf Club Clubhouse.

The deadline for reservations is Aug. 16 and tickets are $35. People must pre-register online by that date at ahwatukeerepublicanwomen.com. The event will include a raffle of a genuine cowboy hat.

AFFAN hosting luncheon, inviting women to join a lively group

Ahwatukee Foothills Friends and Neighbors will host a luncheon at Shalimar Golf Club in Tempe from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 22. Joyce Petrowski, founder of Resources Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly (R.O.S.E.), will be covering frauds and scams that affect the 60+ popu-

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while in reality her blood is a random donor’s match.

And that’s how it is for any blood drive; you really can’t individually donate to a specific person in times of crisis.

“You can’t really wait until you know someone in a hospital bed to go donate blood. It takes about two days to test and process blood before it can even be sent to a hospital for possible transfusion,” Thew said.

“So, if you wait until someone’s already in a hospital bed, you’ve waited too long.”

How to help

lation. Tips and tools to help prevent becoming a victim and helpful resources will be discussed.

Contact affanwomensgroup@gmail.com for more details and to register. The cost of the lunch is $22 and prepaid reservations must be made by Aug. 14.

AFFAN is a local women’s club serving Ahwatukee since 2001. “We offer women of all ages a club taking advantage of all things we enjoy doing: dining, card playing, games, gardening, books, exploring Arizona day trips,” a spokeswoman said. Information: affanwomensgroup.org/public

Festival of Lights seeks support from businesses, individuals

A group of residents and board members of the Foothills Community Association are fundraising for the annual display of lights in the medians of Chandler Boulevard between 24th Street and Desert Foothills Parkway.

The annual cost of setting up and tearing down the display – along, of course, with the cost of electricity – exceeds $110,000 and even though both the Foothills and Club West homeowners associations have supported this in the past with annual contributions – usually $50,000 and $25,000 respectively – the holiday effort requires the support of individuals, groups and businesses.

There are several ways to help: people can make a donation at gofundme.com (search by “foothills festival of lights;” or they can send a check with “Foothills Holiday Lights Donation” in the memo field to Premier, attention Jatana Wylie, 3930 S. Alma School Road, Chandler AZ 85248. Information: cmcneish@cox.net or 480221-9090.

Ironwood Library offers programs for young and old alike

Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee, is offering regular and special programs. Unless otherwise Adelyn serves as an inspiration that ends up helping everyone, explained Troutman, who with his wife came up with the biannual drives partly as a way to “pay if forward” and encourage blood donations that could help others as others’ have helped their daughter.

Her story is a reminder that donating blood is a community effort.

“It’s everybody around us that is keeping other people alive,” said Troutman.

The Troutmans are hosting their next blood drive in Adelyn’s honor at Desert Foothills Methodist Church in Ahwatukee on Sept. 24. 

Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd, Ahwatukee, is hosting a community blood 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 22 on behalf of the American Red Cross. People ages 16 and over can make recommended blood donations and appointments can be made at redcrossblood. org. Select the “Donating Blood” option for an appointment. Walk-in donations are also welcome, as available. Masks are optional.

To schedule a donation for Vitalant, go to vitalant.org.

To join the Troutmans’ biannual drive, check Mark Troutman or Kami Troutman on Phoenix for details later this month. 

noted, free tickets are required and available 30 minutes before programs’ start times at the library’s information desk. For more information: phoenixpubliclibrary.org.

Babytimes Babies ages birth to 23 months, accompanied by a favorite adult, will enjoy songs, rhymes, books, and interactive fun every Tuesday, 10:30-11:10 a.m. Space is limited to 10 families.

Toddlertimes Toddlers ages 24-36 months, accompanied by a favorite adult, will enjoy songs, rhymes, books, and interactive fun every Thursday, 10:30-11:10 a.m. Space is limited to 10 families.

Full STEAM ahead for kids Children ages 5-11 explore hands-on creative ways to design, experiment, and invent every Saturday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., in this weekly Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) program. Space is limited to 10 families.

Book Club Adult readers 18+ can meet up with fellow adventuresome bibliophiles to share their thoughts about each month’s selection the first Wednesday of each month, 5:00-5:45 p.m. Today, Aug. 3, the discussion will be about Night Came with Many Stars by Simon Van Booy and on Sept. 7 The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe.

Next Chapter Book Club This inclusive community-based book club is designed for people ages 12+ with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have a desire to make friends, explore their community, and read (regardless of current reading ability). This weekly gathering is free every Wednesday, beginning Sept. 7 from 3-4 p.m. Space is limited to eight participants. Online registration is required and available in the Calendar section of the library’s website.

Backyard Gardening Using Master Gardener techniques, adults ages 18+

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pert speakers on the second Tuesday of every month.

During the summer, its programs are only on Zoom but the group plans to resume in-person sessions in September that also will be available online.

The mission of Desert Rivers Audu-

can learn the basics of gardening, watering, reading a planting calendar specifically for the Valley, and about additional desert landscaping resources. This info will be presented by local community & sustainability nonprofit organization Keep Phoenix Beautiful on 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Sept. 10.

Ahwatukee Kiwanis lists speakers at its Thursday morning meetings

The Ahwatukee Kiwanis Club is always looking for new members and invites interested people to attend one of their weekly meetings at 7:30 a.m. Thursdays at Biscuits restaurant, 4623 E. Elliott Road in the Safeway plaza. People also are invited to hear the speakers.

Speakers who will appear and the dates are: Aug. 11, Amanda Nosbisch, One Small Step/Clothes Cabin; Aug 25 Kyle Ross, Kyrene Digital Academy principal.

Ahwatukee American Legion Post always seeking new members

Men and women who served in the Armed Forces are always invited to join Ahwatukee American Legion Post 64, which meets 4-5 p.m. every third Wednesday of the month at the Ahwatukee Rec Center, 5001 E. Cheyenne Drive, Ahwatukee.

The post’s mission is to “enhance the well-being of America’s veterans, their families, our military and our communities by devotion to mutual helpfulness.”

Information: Americanlegionpost64.com or 480-3264656  Submit your releases to pmaryniak@timespublications.com

bon Society is to educate and inspire our community to protect and preserve birds, wildlife and their habitats.

From fall to spring the chapter sponsors monthly owl walks at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus in east Mesa, as well as family birdwalks in Gilbert’s Riparian Preserve and Chandler’s Veterans Oasis Park. 

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At 105, Mesa woman still has a zest for life

BY MARK MORAN AFN Staff Writer

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esa resident Nora Leesley wants to know why she hasn’t received her absentee ballot for the upcoming election.

At age 105, she still has a vivid interest in politics.

Born in 1917, Leesley has lived through 25 presidential administrations – she was born during Woodrow Wilson’s term but liked Dwight Eisenhower the best.

Growing up, she rode her horse four miles each morning past the farm where the outlaw Jesse James and his family lived to a one-room school that housed grades 1-8 in Kearney, Missouri, population 500.

Her mother taught all eight of those grades. “She rode side-saddle horse to school,” Leesley said. “Made her own fire and all that stuff. Just a country school.

This day and age, she would have been teacher of the year.”

Nora had a brother and sister, both older.

And there was no sugar coating it,

Nora Leesler has a simple formula for living a long life. (David Minton/Staff Photographer) she said: Life was just plain difficult for her family. “We lived on a farm,” she said. “We went through hard, hard, hard

times. We had nothing … like everybody else. Went through the Depression. All of our crops died. My dad was a farmer. The house burned when I was about 7 years old. We lost everything we had. I don’t think we ever really recovered from that.

“Dad had a lot of hard luck. Lightning struck his team of mules and that was his means of plowing the field. We didn’t have tractors and all that stuff.

“I grew up with no running water, no electricity, no anything. We hauled the water up the hill from the well to the kitchen.

It was a hard life.”

She said she and her family lived a sparse and modest life that had one saving grace: There was always music in the house.

“Mother was a good pianist. My sister and I took piano lessons and both of us took violin lessons. My brother played the trumpet. Dad played the harmonica,” she said. “That was our entertainment. My cousin played the violin and banjo. Another played the saxophone. We just made our own entertainment.”

Leesley earned a college scholarship when she graduated high school in 1935

but ended up not using it.

“I got married instead of getting that piece of paper,” she said.

She married her high school principal and moved with him to Durango, Colorado, where they spent all they had to buy a $2,000 home in 1936. “You make your way on what you have. You don’t live beyond your means. That’s the whole problem with the young people today. Everything goes on plastic.”

Husband, Harvey Hollar, retired from teaching and went into politics as a county commissioner in Durango. That’s where Leesley earned her stripes as a back-office political worker bee.

“I was very active,” she said.

That’s an understatement. “Typing about 5,000 letters on the clunky typewriter. A mountain of envelopes. I addressed them all. Filled out all the sheets to mail out to everybody. Worked day and night in all our spare time getting that done. We walked the whole town door to door, knocking on doors soliciting votes.

And he won. Every time. He never lost an election and he had five of them.” 

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F45 Training helps keep members motivated

BY GERI KOEPPEL AFN Contributor

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hether you want to slim down, bulk up or simply have more everyday strength, movement and stamina, a new fitness studio in Ahwatukee Foothills aims to help.

F45 Training at 4645 E. Chandler Blvd. at S. 48th Street opened in June and offers a fast-paced, high-energy group workout set to loud music that lasts 45 sweatsoaked minutes.

Although there are more than 2,300 franchises in 63 countries, this is the first in Ahwatukee.

SJ Lent of Mesa, the operating manager for the new location, said the first time he visited an F45 Training studio, he was “blown away” and wanted to be involved.

He also runs the Chandler Hightown franchise at Alma School and Germann roads,

which opened in April, and will manage the north Mesa location when it opens in late 2022.

Despite recent news about a shake-up on the corporate level, it won’t affect these local franchises, Lent said.

With the crush of competition for fitness dollars—from traditional gyms to specialty studios—F45 Training differentiates itself partly with a community aspect. Members challenge each other, keep each other accountable to show up and socialize outside of their sessions.

“When they know that there’s people waiting on them, they’re not going to hit

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SJ Lent, left, is the operating manager of the new F45 Training studio in Ahwatukee as well as one in Chandler, and his son, Andrew Lent, is the studio manager for both. (Geri Koeppel/

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Brewer’s AC gifts Ahwatukee Chamber $5K AFN NEWS STAFF

B Celebrating Brewer’s Air Conditioning & Heating donation to the Ahwatukee Chamber are, from left: Dee Gardon, Chamber Board member; Andy Hayes, Chamber CEO; Mark Ybarra, owner of Brewer’s AC; Evelyn Controne, Brewer’s customer service manager; Mario Ybarra, Brewer’s technician; and Mark Whitaker, Chamber Ambassador. (Courtesy of Ahwatukee Chamber)

rewer’s Air Conditioning & Heating has donated $5,000 to the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce as part of its ongoing commitment to support small businesses and the Ahwatukee community.

The Chamber said the donation will help its mission of promoting initiatives in business education, workforce progression and development, along with economic growth and development.

“Our small business focuses not just on the Brewer’s team, customers, and business partners, but on our community as well,” company President Mark Ybarra said. “We look forward to seeing how the Ahwatukee Chambers uses this gift to create initiatives, programs and opportunity for the small businesses in our community.”

Ybarra and Brewer’s have had a long-

time passion for community involvement and charitable actions.

“The company has never boasted about how much we do, but I’m proud to be a part of Habitat for Humanity; last year we finished our 25th home for Habitat.”

“We do these homes with our valued vendor partners, Trane and Ferguson HVAC,” Ybarra added. “Together we donate all material, equipment and labor to complete the home’s central air conditioning system, bath fans and dry vents.”

Other charitable endeavors by Brewer’s include PONY Baseball, Little League, Soccer and advertising with a half dozen area high schools to help fund sports programs.

Brewer’s is also the featured sponsor of the annual Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce Masters Golf Tournament and much more.

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Happy Cans finds a little known household niche

BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

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ed Jennings provides one of those services you don’t necessarily think people want, but the Gilbert man says you’d be surprised.

Jennings cleans garbage cans.

And his business, Happy Cans, is thriving, according to the father of five.

“I have found that people care more than you would think,” he said. “Those who are reluctant to try us – but then eventually do try us out – can’t believe what a difference it makes. In our hot summers trash cans really smell awful, which makes throwing out the garbage or taking the cans to the street for trash pickup a very unpleasant experience, to say the least.”

That’s where Happy Cans comes to the rescue.

“After we have cleaned them

and sprayed the deodorizer in them, people don’t have to worry about the odor.”

Moreover, he noted, “Trash can cleaning also reduces pests such as flies, maggots, cockroaches, mice, and rats around the house.

So, it’s part of total pest control management for a homeowner.

Our cleaning process even kills bacteria and viruses.”

Happy Cans arose from the disruptions that the pandemic created in its early months for Jennings’ normal job – selling medical devices for 14 of the 19 years the Southern California native has lived in Gilbert.

He had been an Independent sales rep selling customized surgical instrument trays to help protect expensive and delicate surgical instruments from being damaged during the sterilization process.

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snooze,” he noted. “They’re going to make it most of the time.”

Member Lynnette Padilla of Mesa said that’s a big draw for her.

“It’s this community inside there,” she said. “Everyone encourages each other.”

She added that she gets up at 4:30 a.m. to make it to early classes, saying, “I used to own a gym with my husband, and I was never motivated like I’m motivated now.”

Another advantage is the variety of exercises, which include cardio, resistance and high-intensity interval training (HIIT).

While workouts elsewhere can become monotonous, F45 Training offers over 200 classes with more than 10,000 movements.

“You’re never doing the same workout every day,” Padilla explained. “The routines are always different.”

In addition, at least one personal trainer

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“Our focus is to give back to the community and do our part to support those communities that support us the best we can.” Ybarra said.

Ted Jennings of Gilbert and his Happy Cans business deploy high-pressured hot water to clean garbage cans.

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is on site for each class, and two are usually there if a class has 10 or more members, Lent said. They not only help encourage and assist members, but also work with them if they have injuries or physical limitations.

“It’s really for all skill levels,” Lent said, “Yes, the workouts can be incredibly challenging, but they can absolutely go on their own pace. We’re set up in stations, yes, but they can stop as many times as they want.”

At F45, members quickly move through a series of stations with various weights, kettle bells, stationary bikes and other equipment, and they switch when they hear a telltale sound over the music.

Video screens show them what they’re supposed to be doing and where. One 45-minute cardio workout can burn 900 calories, and a strength session can burn around 500.

Right now, classes are held at 5, 6, 8:30 Ahwatukee Chamber CEO Andy Hayes noted that Brewer’s is a founding member of the Chamber, which celebrates 28 years this October.

“Mark has played an instrumental role in the growth and prosperity of the

and 11:45 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. weekdays, except for the Friday late class, which is at 4:30 p.m. Weekend classes are at 8:15 and 9:30 a.m. More times will be added as membership grows, Lent noted.

The 8:30 a.m. class is especially convenient for people who have to drop off their kids at school at 8 a.m., he added. And there’s a shower in case anyone needs to go somewhere directly afterward.

The “F” in F45 stands for “functional,” because the circuit “strengthens those muscles that are needed for their daily activities,” Lent said.

And if someone has a specific goal—say, looking fit for their wedding day, a reunion or a big trip—they can help members meet their benchmarks.

Andrew Lent of Mesa, who is SJ Lent’s son and the studio manager at both locations, said F45 Training takes all the guesswork out of figuring out a fitChamber,” Hayes said. “Through his guidance and leadership, the Chamber continues to promote small business and the growth of Ahwatukee.”

Brewer’s is a privately-owned and family-operated company, founded in 1982.

ness routine.

If a person isn’t used to going to a gym, he said, “You lose confidence. You need someone to help motivate you. They don’t know where to start; they don’t know which weights to pick up.”

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Since starting at F45 Training, she said, she feels stronger, healthier and has more energy. “They push me to do a little more,” Padilla said. “They’re constantly pushing me to go a little further.”

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When COVID first made the scene in March 2020, hospitals restricted access to visitors – including sales people who sold all but the most essential kinds of equipment.

“Since my product was not of an urgent nature,” Jennings said, “I was not able to go into hospitals to work with my contacts in the Sterile Processing Department to customize instrument trays for the instrument sets they wanted protected. As a result, my sales pipeline decreased quickly over a few months.”

Then the other longer lasting impact of the pandemic hit hospitals – and Jennings pocketbook.

As hospitals lost more money from canceling elective surgeries, “they didn’t have the money in their budgets to invest in our products and therefore my sales opportunities diminished,” he said.

Meanwhile, in May 2020, Jennings began encouraging one of his sons to clean trash cans in the neighborhood during the summer to make a little money.

And while helping him get his little busi-

ness off the ground, Jennings was trying to figure out a way to make some extra money since opportunities for pitching his medical devices to hospitals had become more limited.

As the pandemic-restrictions dragged on, Jennings decided he could clean garbage cans, too.

“I started cleaning trash cans separately from my son but with the small pressure washer I had bought for him to get him started. As I started talking to customers, I realized that this was a service that people wanted but didn’t know how to get.

“I started researching the trash can cleaning business and found that there were a few people providing this service in the U.S. but that it was in the growth phase,” he continued. “So I found some inexpensive, used trash can cleaning equipment and with the help of my neighbor, modified it so that it would clean better. I have since upgraded to the most modern equipment available for trash can cleaning.”

Jennings developed his business out of whole cloth; it is no franchise.

“My son had the idea for our logo and most things I have done with the business

have been through a little research and a lot of trial and error,” he explained.

Jennings cleans cans “with very high pressure at a high temperature.”

“The water pressure is set to 2700 PSI and at a temperature of 230 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to kill these microorganisms,” he said. “Then we spray a deodorizer and disinfectant in the trash can to complete the process.

We collect all the nasty water in our catch basin and then at the end of the day, we dump it in a permitted dump station so no dirty water is left on the street or goes down the gutter.”

Between word of mouth, social media and other marketing efforts, Jennings said, “My trash can cleaning business continues to grow every month” – so much so he’s not thinking about going back to medical devices.

Jennings’ service casts a wide net, as he visits homes in Gilbert, Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, and Ahwatukee. New customers also get $10 off their first cleaning to boot.

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holeistic Fitness, which calls itself “the only holistic gym, recovery, and human optimizing center of its kind,” opened in Ahwatukee at 4405 E. Ray Road recently.

The studio offers holistic wellness, fitness, nutrition, yoga, and recovery services for weight loss, longevity, anti-aging and resilience.

“When you step into Wholeistic Fitness, everything looks different, from the brand-new Rouge Fitness equipment to the super cold ice bath all the way to the handmade custom built Finnish dry sauna and red-light therapy booths,” the studio said in a release.

To further what it calls a “welcoming and nurturing” approach, each client first undergoes an assessment to determine goals and needs “All of the programs and equipment serve to decrease stress, reduce risk of injury, fortify the joints and core, remove toxins from the body and/or improve circulation, encouraging weight loss, cellulite reduction, relief from brainfood, and overall improved health,” the studio said.

Workout programs revolve around functional movements “that mimic everyday lives to make everyday life easier” with a focus on healing knee and back injuries while simultaneously sculpting each client’s body.

A dry sauna is used because it gets hot-

ter than infrared ones and burns calories, eliminates toxins, improves sleep, strengthens cardiovascular and immune systems and reduces stress and fatigue.

Ice baths increase healing of sore muscles, improve circulation, reduce stress, increase levels of serotonin and dopamine for sustained durations and accelerates metabolism. The Cold Plunge bath gets down to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.

Red-light therapy also is available to increase collagen production help heal age-related eyesight problems and also offers hormone benefits while decreasing inflammation and speeding up the body’s recovery process.

Bi-weekly meetings with a staffer help clients track and make adjustments.“Yoga is a crucial aspect to the Wholeistic Fitness model, providing not only recovery through the movements and stretching, but for those who use it as such, a spiritual practice and place to gather with friends,” the company added.

An existing community called the Tribe of Phoenix will be integrated into the facility to develop a place of healing, growth, and community. The weekly gatherings consist of holotropic breathwork, music, dance, and other activities.

“Wholeistic Fitness is an experience that is focused on a holistic approach to your fitness of your body, mind, spirit, and community. A place that unites people around common, transformational goals,” said founder Joshua Byrd. 

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Understanding errors in retirement planning

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ver the decades, millions of Americans have made major errors in their investment, tax, and retirement planning decisions by not understanding advanced math. Here are two mistakes:

I can average 10-12% rates of return in the stock market.

If one examines academic studies, a better mathematical measuring stick would be Compound Average Growth Rate (CAGR). MoneyChimp.com calculates that the CAGR was 5.49% from Jan. 1, 2000, to Dec. 31, 2022. This is about half of the return that many Americans believe they can earn in the stock market.

Suppose you ended the dot-com boom with $1 million in the stock market on Jan. 1, 2000. Then the dot-com bust started and on Jan. 1, 2021, you are down by half to $500,000, or -50%. You got lucky with

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The algebraic total is +30% and so your average return is 15% for the two years, even though you are down $100,000. At this point the seminar audience is stunned and confused. If folks really understood advanced math, they might not have 80-90% of their life savings in the stock market.

Making big returns in the stock market is more important than saving taxes.

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If they earn $100,000 a year in their IRA and pull it out, they will owe $40,000 a year in taxes. If they could convert the $1 million IRA to a Roth IRA, they could save $40,000/year.

Let’s now go to an advanced concept: economic opportunity/cost benefit analysis, which I have not seen in any of the hundreds of financial seminars I’ve attended over the last 50 years. I was not exposed to this concept until taking Ph.D economics courses at UC Berkeley.

Using a financial calculator, enter: $40,000/year for annual payment; 10% for expected annual return; 35 years for time; and click FV for Future Value. The answer is $11,925,072, more net wealth is created for the family by the Roth IRA. The reason we use 35 years is because when a Roth IRA is inherited, the kids can earn unlimited amounts for the first 10 years and add to their 25 years from 70 to 95. If one could save $40,000 a year taxes for 35 years, that’s $1.4 million total.

However, one would not account for the fact that adding $40,000/year to your investment money machine means almost $12 million more wealth.

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Ahwatukee teen stars in reprise of big musical

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n Ahwatukee teen will be front and center when Limelight Performing Arts presents “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” Aug. 4-14 at the Mesa Arts Center, Bennett Smith, 16, will play the lead role in the musical, alternating in performances with Tre Moore of Mesa.

The musical, which takes place in biblical-era Canaan and Egypt, tells the story of Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph, through a kaleidoscope of song and dance. When Jacob gives Joseph a magnificent coat of many colors, his 11 brothers become so consumed with jealousy they sell him into slavery in Egypt.

But because of Joseph’s prophetic gift for interpreting dreams, he ascends from lowly house slave to Pharaoh’s key advisor – and soon redeems the brothers who betrayed him.

Bennett is at the center of it all – and he’s no stranger to demanding performances. He already has held numerous major roles.

His turn as Emmett Forrest in Chandler High’s March production of “Legally Blonde” won him a nomination for “Best Lead Male” in the ASU Gammage High School Musical Theatre Awards in May. The Chandler High School junior has performed at the Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert and Mesa Community College and has held lead roles such as Jean Val Jean and Miles Tuck at Actors Youth Theatre.

And earlier this summer, he completed an intensive training program in New York City, where he worked alongside Broadway professionals for six days, honing his craft and preparing for his biggest role yet in “Joseph.”

Bennett said that Joseph “is a role that I really wanted to do and when this came up, I immediately wanted to audition for it.

“It is one of the roles I’ve always wanted to play. It’s complex and fun and the

Bennett Smith, 16, of Ahwatukee, rehearses for the title role in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” that Limelight Performing Arts will be presenting starting tomorrow, Aug. 4, at the Mesa Arts Center. (David Minton/GetOut Staff Photographer) coat is amazing! Who wouldn’t want to wear the coat?”

The coat certainly is something to behold.

“It was designed to stand out,” said Marie South, who, along with Limelight’s ar-

tistic director, Emma England, is directing the show. “Joseph is the shining star of all the brothers, so his coat has to have that dazzling, high-impact effect.”

And despite its weighty themes, the musical is upbeat and full of comic relief.

The Children’s Chorus in “Joseph” includes, from left, of Edward Oster, Lucy Peifer, Sophie Aspinall, Audra South, Kali Kappes, Alyssa Sherwood, Susie Peifer, Dominic Montufar, Whitney Sherwood, and Gabriella Montufar. (David Minton/GetOut Staff Photographer)

With lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, it features colorful characters and costumes, modern choreography and a range of music and dance styles – from calypso and bubble-gum pop to a country-western hoedown and a Pharaoh who sings Elvis.

“It’s hilarious, inspiring and so colorful,” said England.

Yet despite the light-hearted nature of the production, the role of “Joseph” is no easy undertaking.

“I am working with so many talented people who are bringing their very best to this show,” said Bennett. “I have to work extra hard and raise my own bar to reach the level that my cast members have set. It is an awesome responsibility.”

But he’s certainly up for the challenge – especially since it means spending time with his cast mates and being part of a major production.

“I’m getting reacquainted with some friends that I haven’t had the opportunity to be in a show with for a long time,” he said. “And I love working with Tre. He is my counterpart in the other cast and is an amazingly talented person.”

“Joseph” is challenging in other ways, too, as every word in the musical is sung, every scene is choreographed, and the energy is high from beginning to end.

“I love dancing, but I only dance at the end, so I have to hold back,” he said. “This part is epic, and I can’t wait for audiences to see that at the end.”

As opening night approaches, the directing team and cast is working to fine-tune every aspect of the production, from the harmonies and choreography to the set and lighting.

“We threaded color through every aspect of this show,” said South. “For example, many of our set pieces look beige on the surface, but they’re lit from within and bring out that technicolor quality when we turn the lights on.”

“The coat is probably the coolest, but

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the audience will love all of the costumes and lights,” added Bennett. “Everyone is putting in 100% and it is going to be an amazing show. There is a true trust among the cast members.”

“At the heart of this show is a powerful message of love and unity that will resonate with children and adults,” said England. “The cast’s hard work and incredible passion will be evident in the top-notch quality of this performance.”

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Cherry Pie, Blueberry Cobbler or Apple Brown Betty, perhaps – but not something called Clafoutis. (Pronounced “Claw-foo-TEE”).

Never did I expect a few simple ingredients would produce such a rich, delicate baked dessert that is now one of my very favorite goto recipes. (To think that I found Grandma’s Cooking at a thrift store for a buck!)

Yes, it’s hot outside, and we don’t want anything heavy for dessert. Clafoutis is the answer! This simple treat begins with fresh fruit topped with a very basic combination of eggs, cream and sugar with a slight amount of flour and lemon juice.

It’s a bit of a cross between cake, pudding and flan, and it’s remarkably delicious and light, Clafoutis, a local favorite dessert from the Limousin region of France, is traditionally made with black cherries. But most fruits in season, like plums, pears, apples and berries work just as well. This week blackberries were large and sweet, so that’s what I used.

What I love about Clafoutis is that it is pretty much foolproof. Spread the fresh fruit on the bottom of an oven proof dish, pour the egg and cream mixture Ingredients: • 2 tablespoons butter, softened • 2 pints of fresh ripe blackberries (3 pints if small size) • 3 large egg yolks • 1 large whole egg • ½ cup sugar Directions: 1 Butter the bottom of a 9-inch oven safe tart, flan or pie dish.

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5 Pour mixture over blackberries and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until golden brown on top and toothpick comes up clean.

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Painting

Plumbing

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